Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game, unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. Scant attention over the last ten years resulted in its level being perhaps $2.2 billion below where it should be now. Reasonable people may differ as to the exact figures, but not as to their magnitude...
...mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends and free trips home. A smattering of applause. Then Yeltsin pledged to increase the subsidy to the student cafeteria. A little more clapping. "If there is scant applause to this, that means food is no problem," said Yeltsin. "Or perhaps you are so undernourished that you are too weak to applaud." Finally, laughter filled the room...
...where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...
...faltering house seminar program--very few houses offer more than one seminar per year, if any--is just another indication that House are failing to live up to their expectations. The scant interaction among undergraduate House residents and senior common room members is nearly farcical; most students only glimpse hordes of grey-suited professors filing to receptions in masters' residences...
...that the season has begun, these backstairs, off-the-field maneuvers have scant fascination for the fans. What matters to them is the pressing issues...